Hacker’s brief | County 17

Mrs. Laura Renard/Dying Widow Giving Money to Charities Scam: A Laramie citizen reported another dying widow scam email heavy on the religious heartstrings. The email was from [email protected] and the subject line was “Donation Fund From Mrs. Laura Renard.”

Bitcoin Email Scam: A Sheridan citizen reported an email from [email protected] spoofed as “Bitcoin Manager” or [email protected] saying there was an incorrect transfer of bitcoin that should have gone to you and the Swedish Blockchain Office caught it. Do not give them your personal information. CyberWyoming Note: Wyoming is internationally known as a blockchain friendly environment, which means we get more scams about cryptocurrency and blockchain.

McAfee Impersonation to Gain User Credentials: A badly worded McAfee impersonation email saying your account is suspended was reported by a Sheridan citizen. Interestingly, the link redirects to Germany and the website landing page looks exactly like a Russian scam reported about two weeks ago. The email was from [email protected] spoofed as Warning-365. The first line in the email is “We noticed you left something in your subscription and didn’t want you to get vulnerable for any threats!”

Stewart Cameron Wants Your Project Details: A Laramie citizen reported a suspicious business-to-business email from [email protected] with the subject line of “Reaching Out!” Stewart requested project details from the business. Most reputable businesses do not email from yahoo accounts.

Financial Intelligence Department Doesn’t Exist in the US Treasury: If you receive an email from [email protected] or from [email protected] with the subject line of “Attention Beneficiary” supposedly from the Financial Intelligence Department in the US State Department or US Treasury Department (the hackers just threw a bunch of different department names together), then it may be a good time to block country codes on your email settings or home cable modem or router. Visit the how to section of your email service or home networking equipment manufacturing to learn how. (The country code .jp is Japan’s country code.) Reported by a Sheridan citizen.

MS-ISAC Patch Now Alert: The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has published a patch now (update your software) alert for Fortinet’s FortiWeb and Microsoft’s Edge browser. If you use these products, make sure the software (or firmware) is updated.

Go Daddy Data Breach: If you or your business uses Go Daddy’s services for your website, be sure to go to the Go Daddy portal and change all of your passwords.